In article <mailman.10789.1402012487.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/06/14 22:27, Alain Ketterlin wrote: > > I have seen dozens of projects where Python was dismissed because of the > > lack of static typing, and the lack of static analysis tools. > > If you are worried your code will bring down the next Ariane launch, I > can understand this argument. If you are only worried a junior developer > will make stupid mistankes that the test suite will trap, then no... > > In Python you cannot spoof an object's type, which means the type safety > is strong. You cannot make Python silently return bytes of garbage by > using objects of incompatible types. Well, you *can* play evil games with the struct module :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list